Thursday, January 22, 2015

The Martian Explosion

Couple this with Clyde Tombaugh's account of a perceived explosion on Mars (noted here and at the UFO Evidence site, among others).....

In 1949, Tombaugh had also told the Naval missile director at White Sands Missile Range, Commander Robert McLaughlin, that he had seen a bright flash on Mars in August 1941, which he now attributed to an atomic blast (mentioned May 12, 1949, in a letter from McLaughlin to Dr. James van Allen). [3] Tombaugh also noted that the first atomic bomb tested in New Mexico would have lit up the dark side of the Earth like a neon sign and that Mars was coincidentally quite close at the time, the implication apparently being that the atomic test would have been visible from Mars.

....and we have observations that feed the possibility that a Martian civilization was intact not that long ago but literally annihilated in toto, eliminating the earlier perceived canals and all remnants of a society or civilization -- the bomb bringing this about being a bomb greater in destructive power that anything created or contemplated here, on Earth.

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Speaking of Tombaugh, the New Horizons spacecraft is approaching Pluto after nine years since its launch. Just read an article in Astronomy Magazine on the mission...should be very interesting if all goes well.

I was able to load the Martian flare article. Good historical accounting on the perceived notions of what a Martian landscape would have looked like via 1800s and mid 1900s scientific theories...all wrong as we now know.

This article certainly provides plausible evidence concerning what Tombaugh may had seen...

Just read up on the history of the Mariner program. It appears that up until Mariner 4 did a Mars fly-by in 1964, there was still hope that there was actual water, as in lakes or oceans on the surface. Mariner 4 deflated that balloon.

I had read sometime back, I forget the source, that when Mariner 4 sent back the first photos of the surface of Mars, some scientists were shocked that Mars was such a barren and desolated place. Source may have been from astrobiologist David Greenspoon's book, "Lonely Planets: the natural philosophy of alien life".